At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, ****More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2014

Catalogue No: 108103

Label: Arthaus Musik

Awards:

Blu-ray

Lintu has always had an interesting analytical perspective on the symphonies but he delves even further here...To describe this as an important snapshot of orchestral Helsinki in 2015 is to belittle... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016More…

This [DVD] confirms that Ernani fully deserves a place in the repertory, even if Grinda’s staging is conservative to the point of static…it’s the baritone who gets all the best tunes in Ernani... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018More…

Jacquelyn Wagner is a poised Fiordiligi, with plenty of power for ‘Come scoglio’, while Michèle Losier sings a stylish Dorabella...The men are even finer, particularly Philippe Sly’s Guglielmo...With... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2017More…

Konwitschny is radical enough to introduce a character - silent, of course - whom Verdi and his librettist left out. That is Germont's daughter...Now to the musica performance: it is heavily... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, ****More…